{"id":103992,"date":"2020-03-19T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/covid-19-coronavirus-epidemic-has-a-natural-origin"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:24:47","slug":"covid-19-coronavirus-epidemic-has-a-natural-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/covid-19-coronavirus-epidemic-has-a-natural-origin","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-coronavirus-epidemic-has-a-natural-origin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know some have speculated that the Coronavirus was engineered:<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and has since caused a large scale COVID-19 epidemic and spread to more than 70 other countries is the product of natural evolution, according to findings published today in the journal <em>Nature Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes,\u201d said Kristian Andersen, PhD, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research and corresponding author on the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know some have speculated that the Coronavirus was engineered: An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered. The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and has since caused a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}